Lavender Cake

This Lavender Cake is an explosion of fragrance and taste. It is ideal for those special moments when you are feeling romantic or want to impress the beloved ones.

The delicate little lavender flowers give this dish a beautiful look. I would say that this cake looks somehow “vintage”. Yes, a “vintage” cake, could you imagine it? Neither could I but here we are. Let’s prepare it.

Ingredients

For the cake:

115 g butter, softened

115 g caster sugar

115 g self-raising flour

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1 tablespoon fresh lavender

For the Icing:

180g cream cheese

100ml double cream

3 tablespoon sugar

1 tablespoon lavender tea

1- Preheat the oven to 180ºC, grease and line a 16cm/8cm round, deep cake tin.

2- Cream the butter and sugar until pale, fluffy and smooth.

3- Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing them gently with the flour and milk.

4- Stir the lavender with a spatula.

5- Bake in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes, or until you stick a skewer into the center of the cake and it comes out clean.

6- Let the cake cool on a rack and start preparing the icing.

7- To make the icing put the cream cheese, double cream, sugar and lavender tea into a bowl and whip until creamy.

8- Spread the icing on the top of the cake and decorate with some lavender flowers.

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